The aroma of food slowly wafted out. The slaves in the distance just looked up and stopped looking, hoping that these people would leave some leftovers for them after eating.
As slaves, they were not entitled to eat freshly cooked food every day. The dinner with added ingredients last night did not enter their mouths, but they did not care even if they knew it. They even ate dirt when they were hungry, let alone food that would only make them feel uncomfortable in their stomachs. Anyway, it would not kill them.
Most of the prisoners were indifferent, and only a few showed a desire for food. The people around them were anxious, but because the orcs from Qingshan City were guarding them, they did not dare to tell them directly that there might be something wrong with the food.
Although the people of Qingshan City would have no chance of escape if they were attacked, they were happy to see their enemies suffer.
The food was quickly packaged. Qiu Ye went to the slave area and brought out twenty sub-beasts and twenty orcs. After having them wash up briefly, he took them to collect the food for the slaves.
As they were about to carry the food back to the slave quarters, Qiu Ye added, "We've calculated the quantity of these things so that everyone in your group can eat half full."
As he spoke, he glanced at the slaves and said threateningly, "If I find out that any of you has withheld food from others..."
A threat is most intimidating when it is only half spoken. These slaves who have been tortured for a long time will naturally complete the rest of the words in their minds, and it will be what they care about most.
We only need about ten people to watch over the slaves, but it is a little more troublesome to watch over the prisoners of war.
In the minds of the prisoners of war, they thought that these southern orcs did not know that there was something wrong with the food, so when they saw the people from Qingshan City preparing to start eating, they almost couldn't hold back their facial expressions.
However, the next moment, when he saw the sub-beasts of their tribe coming towards him with food in their arms and being watched by the orcs of Qingshan City, his expression froze.
Those sub-beasts also looked pale as they distributed the food to the families of the sub-beasts who had done something.
The orcs who received the food didn't know whether to cry or laugh for a moment.
Seeing his relatives staring at the food in front of them in a daze with no intention of eating, a sub-beast couldn't help but persuade them, "Only those who have done something can give some food to their relatives."
He pursed his lips and continued, "Those who are unwilling to work, I don't know if they will be given another chance to work. If you don't eat this time, I'm afraid that next time I work, they won't let me get you food, and then you'll be hungry forever."
"It was like this over there before. They just took away those who didn't want to work. After seeing this, the few people who were willing to work also didn't want to do it anymore."
"They didn't say anything and just let the people go. In the end, there were only a few people left, so they just picked some people from the slaves."
"And now, they are also starving over there, and the slaves who did the work also got some food."
Following the sub-beast's persuasion, his relatives began to show hesitation, but finally gritted their teeth and ate the pitiful amount of food.
In the afternoon, when Qingshan City was preparing to eat again, only the sub-beasts who had worked before were allowed to continue working, while those who were unwilling to work were still left aside.
Those people still didn't say anything. In their opinion, these foods were problematic in the first place, so it didn't matter whether they ate them or not.
After eating two meals in a row, the prisoners were expecting the people from Qingshan City to have stomach upsets, and those who already had stomach upsets and ate more food were expecting their stomach upsets to get even worse.
However, until evening, they hadn't noticed any problems with the people of Qingshan City. Given the orcs' physical fitness, those who had been suffering from stomach upsets had recovered after such a long time. Those prisoners who had eaten again also found nothing unusual about themselves, and their faces showed a hint of confusion.
At this time, those sub-beasts who were unwilling to work and caused themselves and their loved ones to go hungry for two meals began to panic.
When they cooked food for the second time, the people in Qingshan City simply ignored them, which made them suddenly realize that if they did nothing, they and their loved ones would starve.
And looking at the situation in Qingshan City, it seems that they don’t care whether they do the work or not. If they don’t do it, there will always be obedient slaves who will do it.
And because the treatment given to slaves in Qingshan City was much better than when they were in their tribes before, many slaves were very active in their work.
In addition to the people who cooked the food, the orc slaves who had eaten two half-full meals and were still able to move had begun to take the initiative to clean up the tribe.
The slaves didn't mind the dirt. They saw that the people in Qingshan City were reluctant to clean up the excrement on the ground, so they took the initiative to clean it up.
Although it was not requested by the people of Qingshan City, they did give them food after seeing what they did.
There are not many slaves in this tribe, only more than 400, most of whom are orcs, and there are only about 80 sub-beasts. There are only two possibilities for such a big difference in proportion. One is that this tribe prefers to capture orc slaves, and the other is that many sub-beasts have died during the days of being slaves.
We didn't wait until Qingshan City brought the southern orcs to the north.
In just one day, the prisoners discovered that some slaves had already moved closer to these southern orcs, and seemed to be following these southern orcs on their own initiative.
This made the prisoners feel an unprecedented sense of crisis. If the God Tribe could not get here and drive away these southern orcs, I am afraid that in a few days, these slaves would completely join the other side.
Although there are not many healthy orc slaves among them, they are still a fighting force. Moreover, even those with disabilities can be used by Qingshan City. They are not just used to beat, scold and abuse them as live bait to lure wild beasts.
When Ji Heyang arrived here with a large army, the entire tribe had been almost cleaned up. The slaves put in a lot of effort, and the slaves, who were given two meals a day for their work, were in much better condition.
On the contrary, most of the prisoners of war looked listless, and only a few of them looked in good condition.
The ones who seem to be in good condition are the relatives of the sub-beasts who were willing to work before, and they always get two meals a day to fill their stomachs.
The flying orcs saw Yang Heji and the others from a distance, cheered in the sky, and then hurried back to report the news.
"Wu! Yang and Ji are here!" the young flying orc said cheerfully, "They also brought food. Hahahahahaha, we can finally have a good meal. I'm so craving it."
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